Raffaela is a Licensed Master of Social Work working as a Psychotherapist. She has studied psychology and clinical social work and has worked for the past 10 years within hospitals, psychotherapeutic agencies, and community based organizations. Raffaela serves individuals, couples, and families in their healing and understanding of the complex and painful parts of their experience. Raffaela meets each person she communicates with in the healing space, exactly where they are in the moment of connection.  She is committed to providing person- centered, unique interventions to support the symptoms and impact of unresolved traumatic experiences including survivors of chronic dysfunction, abuse and domestic violence, suicidal ideation and emotional crises, maladaptive couple and family functioning, substance abuse and eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and grief. Raffaela prioritizes an empathic therapeutic space and relationship as the instrument to guide each person towards a meaningful life with healthy and conscious awareness and fulfilling relationships with self and others to foster love and growth. Raffaela utilizes trauma- informed modalities to make sense of limiting or distorted thought patterns, behavioral challenges and recurring patterns, interpersonal troubles, somatic discomfort, and spiritual crises.  Raffaela utilizes pillars of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/ Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, psychodynamic theory, somatic experiencing, mindfulness, parts work/ internal family systems, and an intergenerational lens.  Raffaela works to embody safety, to create a space of union for people to align with themselves and their surroundings, to feel seen wholly, as they are and wish to be, through the relationships, cultures, systems and environments that have influenced their shape.